Regional Growth and Cultural Tourism Development Scenarios Associated with the Bears Ears National Monument Cultural Center

<b>Overview</b><br>The Jupyter notebook (Bears_Ears_Economic_Impact.pynb) includes all Python code to process data and create all figures reported in the manuscript. The code can also be accessed via Google Colab here (https://colab.research.google.com/drive/19QptKut-FHMs0OIG6N9O7_C9qr_pSZC8?usp=sharing). All code is heavily commented and should be interpretable.<br><br><b>Bureau of Labor Statistics Data and Analyses<br></b>All Bureau of Labor Statistics data were acquired from the agency’s Quarterly Census on Employment and Wages online data portal (https://www.bls.gov/cew/downloadable-data-files.htm). These data are provided in the ‘BLS.zip’ file. You can extract these data and place them in a local drive, access the files via the Python code provided, and proceed through the creation of the figures.<br><br><b>Economic Impact Data<br></b>Economic impact data, provided after the analyses for each scenario was run, are provided in both the ‘Economic_Impact_and_Tax_Revenues_Results.xlsx’ and ‘economic_indicators_data.csv’ files. The former is more interpretable for humans, the latter is called by the Python code provided to create the figures shown in the paper. The latter file will need to be placed in a local drive before executing the Python code which calls it.<br><br><b>Comments or Questions</b><br>Please direct any questions to Dr. Jordan W. Smith ([e-mail]).